Around English Bicknor #4 - Under Cowmeadow Traditional Cache
ChippyBloss: Decided to end this series as we no longer live in the area.
Around English Bicknor #4 - Under Cowmeadow
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Welcome to our fourth group of Geocaches in & around the Forest of Dean. Around English Bicknor is a circular route of about 5 miles, with English Bicknor as its centrepiece. The village is situated on a hill above the surrounding fields and woodland. It is a very old village with a Norman church & an ancient motte & bailey (the castle no longer exists). The village was first recorded as a hamlet as early as 1066. There are 9 caches in the series & some lovely views along the way.
Cache 4 is hidden in rather an out of the way spot and you may need to translate the clue to locate it. Cowmeadow Farm is a very old farm and is on the hill above the cache site – with your back to the cache you can just see the modern barns above you on the skyline (to the west).
This farm was owned in the past by distant relatives to friends of ours in Hillersland. In a mid 1800s census it was shown as belonging to the Cowmeadow family of Bicknor – or was that a mistake by the local census officer, when he took the name of the farm as being the surname of the family. We cannot trace anyone else in the area, before or since, with that surname. It will probably always remain a mystery.
After locating the cache cross the road & over the stile, then travel south along the obvious footpath, and up the valley gradually gaining height again, over stiles and through gateways, to cache number 5.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre Pbjzrnqbj naq haqre ntnva.
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